Call for solidarity with Lisa Çalan who lost her legs in Diyarbakır bombing

Hand-in-Hand, Rising to Our Feet

Translated from Turkish by Translators for justice

We call for solidarity to provide a prosthesis for our friend Lisa Çalan, a filmmaker who lost both her legs in the Diyarbakır bombing.

We lost 5 people in Diyarbakır when a public meeting of HDP (Peoples’ Democratic Party) was attacked by suicide bombers on June 5. Many people lost their limbs; Lisa Çalan was such a victim.

As Turkish female filmmakers, we have initiated the “Hand-in-Hand, Rising to Our Feet” campaign for Lisa Çalan and others whose endurance and strength despite injury have inspired us to carry on producing films and to act in solidarity.

As similar massacres all around the world keep hurting us all, we call for a cross-border network of solidarity, standing together and helping to heal each other’s wounds. We can start building this solidarity by taking a concrete step: Lisa Çalan’s prosthesis treatment urgently requires €125,000. As filmmakers, let’s begin healing our wounds here, altogether: let’s shout “Action!” and keep producing together with Lisa.

Lisa Çalan is 28 years old. She completed the Cinema Department of the Aram Tigran City Conservatory. She takes part in the Middle East Cinema Academy and various film festival teams, and writes scripts.

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Watch the video of the multilingual acceptance speech sent to the award ceremony in Istanbul from tfj members in Germersheim